Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stubborn to the point of being inane backers of the Garden State bill have produced a new justification for their scheme a minute of silence may quell the disorder that has recently plagued many classrooms. In other words. 60 seconds of practice each day will train youngsters to remain ungetie straight through gometry period and the 3:00 pm belt. If true, why not ban all noise until lunch time. Or forbid the pint-sized calteria muggers and pre-pubsecent drug pushers from even speaking while on school property. This ought to whip the little troublemakers into shape. Meanwhile religious...
...boost Iraqi casualty figures and, perhaps more important, to instill ferocity and brutality in the ill-trained guards for their larger mission. Most of them serve only a short time at the front before being shipped back to the cities to battle the regime's stubborn domestic opponents...
...Social Democrats' resurgence seemed less a reflection of voter sympathy for a move back to the left than an expression of public disenchantment with the austerity policies of outgoing Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin. During his five years in power, the stubborn sheep farmer juggled three governments in an unsuccessful bid to forge a unified coalition among Sweden's fractious non-Socialist parties. Confronted with an inflation rate of 8.5% and a budget deficit of $12.8 billion (about 12% of the country's gross national product, in contrast to the U.S. deficit of about...
Anticipating stubborn response from College officials, committee members discussed the possibility of forming an underground brigade of "Ivy Creepers," who would gather at night and furtively plant new shoots of Ivy each time Harvard scraped clean another wall...
...Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...